LIRR Valley Stream Switch & Signal Improvements Project: Weekend of October 24 and 25

Train service on five MTA Long Island Rail Road South Shore branches will be affected during the weekend of October 24 and 25 as work is completed on a major signal and switch modernization project in the Valley Stream area. The work will require a 48-hour suspension of train service through Valley Stream. Customers using the Babylon, Montauk, Far Rockaway, Long Beach and West Hempstead Branches this weekend will take buses for all or part of their trips and other trains will be diverted. To avoid delays, customers are advised to use North Shore branches this weekend. Unaffected lines include the Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson, Port Washington and Ronkonkoma (west of Ronkonkoma) Branches.

The Valley Interlocking Signal Cutover Project brings state-of- the-art technology to this critical LIRR location by replacing the early 20th century relay based signal technology with a modern microprocessor based system. In addition, 30 switches in the area were modernized with electronic components replacing the outdated mechanical ones. The cost of the project is approximately $60-million. Funding is provided by the MTA LIRR Capital Improvement Program and the Federal Transit Administration.

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• LIRR
• Valley Stream
• Switch & Signal Improvements
• Trains
• MTA
• Long Island Rail Road

[five0fan]

@howardkevinm Here's an idea you fool. IT'S EASIER TO DO IT AT DAY TIME. Not to mention that the LIRR runs trains at night. People have to stop complaining.

[mikeygeneral]

LIRR signal dept is the most racist place iv'e ever worked. Thank god i left.

[ArtStone]

Is that Sean Hannity?

[howardkevinm]

here's an idea you fool. DO IT AT NIGHT WHEN THERES NO TRAINS.

[CP5680]

...because he wears a suit

[donall26]

Why is the commentator walking about the tracks without his personal safety equipment?